Cool. Great, well written and well researched. I like the form - prose mixed with source links. Reads like a story. When I researched similar subject in past,

Cool. Great, well written and well researched. I like the form - prose mixed with source links. Reads like a story. When I researched similar subject in past, though, I focused on the user-exposed toggles/counters [0]. It's very hard to strike the right balance between code (current implementation), general concepts (everyone should know what a syn queue is) and actually getting to a point. Well done. [0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/syn-packet-handling-in-the-wild/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/syn-packet-handling-in-the-wild/